Patient: "I Hate Borderline Personality Disorder - That's me to a tee!"

"Doctor, I am so done with BPD. I hate Borderline Personality Disorder. It makes me really angry. I've been reading all about it on the internet and I just can't stand it. Of course, aside from promiscuity and substance abuse, I am so certifiably borderline myself."

- said the patient to me today. Did I mention she was kicked out of her partial hospitalization program, and wants to get back into it again... and that she stopped the one med that helps distorted thoughts?

Does anybody else get reminded of the absurdist humor in The Onion?

Phew, what a day. And that was only one of my 22 patients from 8-5:20 without a break.

Pax et amor;
xtoph

A Y-switch that train enthusiasts don't see too often!

Yes folks, it is a real image from a real train track and it shows the wye-switch (named for the letter) division into two lines from one line, in a rack railway to the highest point in Germany, called die Zugspitze, which we visited in Germany September the 21st, 2007. Note that here, the teeth of the Strub rack are free, pointing upward, which allows the switch without difficulty.

Below, see how in the station, where passengers have to be able to cross tracks on the platform, the older, Riggenbach rack system is used.

Gingerbread Dogs

(To the tune of Santa Claus is coming to town refrain)

They know what you've been gluing
And what fell off the plate
They know it's really not their food
But they'll take what they can take.

Oh, you'd better not pout,
They've got a good snout,
You better watch out
Or it'll be a real rout,

Gingerbread dogs are snooping a-round!

New Goals

I am to post one time per week, or more often, for the new year. We'll see how it goes, as they say.

New habit: daily gym attendance.

Evidence: two 1000+ calorie workouts:

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Outcome: I can see a few ribs without too much inhaling and posturing.

Hope: Six pack by next summer vacation!

Pax et amor; Xtoph